GPS units carried by cyclists in the men's road race on Saturday were reportedly unable to transmit coordinates back to Olympics broadcasters, due to the network strain caused by spectators lining the route

The opening ceremony of the Games is here, the starting gun for massive amounts of traffic to begin flowing across content and service providers' networks in the UK. What have they done to prepare for the surge?

People travelling from France to the UK for the Olympics will get to use French operators' services 100 metres under the sea. UK operators will push their services live in the other half of the tunnel after the Games.